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cogs.sussex.ac.uk>A while ago I enquired about works in English or a Romance language discussing Contentive Typology. Replies came in (for which many thanks) from all continents except Africa. Just about everyone mentioned the first item below. I'm posting the list in case anyone else would find the refs useful. Nichols, Johanna, 1992. _Language Diversity in Time and Space_, Chicago: UP. Klimov, G.A. 1974. On the character of languages of active typology, _Linguistics_ 131. 11-25 Klimov, G.A. 1983. On contentive typology, _Lingua e Stile_ 18. 327-341 Lazard, Gilbert, 1986. Le type linguistique dit "actif": reflexions sur une typologie globale, _Folia Linguistica_ 20. 87-108 Lehmann, W.P. 1990. The current thrust of IE studies, _General Linguistics_ 70 Lehmann, W.P. & Hewitt, H.J.J. (eds.), 1991. _Language Typology 1988: Typological Models in Reconstruction_. Amsterdam: Benjamins Nichols, Johanna, 1986. Head-marking and dependent-marking grammars, _Language_ 62. 56-119 Nichols, Johanna, 1990. Some preconditions and typical traits of the stative-active language type (with reference to Proto-Indo-European), in W.P. Lehmann (ed.), _Language Typology 1987_, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 95-113 Max Wheeler, School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, U.K.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue